Cohasset, Massachusetts.
Typical home $1,450,934 (+7.7% in a year), asking rent $4,131 . Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,531 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $103,336 +8%
- $1,347,599$1,450,934 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $411,803 +40%
- $1,039,131$1,450,934 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Cohasset$7,616
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Cohasset, MA rose 7.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cohasset, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Cohasset is a town of 8,381 people in Norfolk County. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Norfolk County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in finance and property, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Cohasset is a small coastal town in Norfolk County, home to a population on the older side, with most households owning the homes they live in. Incomes in town are well above the county's, very few residents live below the poverty line, and an unusually large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Homes here cost a good deal more than in most American towns, and renting is pricey too. Winters are cold, with January highs only a little above freezing and plenty of snow, while July brings warm days, and the year is wet as well.
Work. Residents work mostly in banks, insurance and property, professional and business services, schools and hospitals, and shops. Within town, the biggest workplaces include Cohasset Schools, Stop & Shop and Hingham Lumber Company. Commutes are long compared with much of the country, and more people than usual do their work from home. Across Norfolk County, unemployment is a little lower than a year ago and jobs have edged up.
Things to do. Nantasket Beach is a beach in or beside town, an easy place for a walk by the water. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Boston, where the Museum of Fine Arts Boston is the best known of the museums and Fenway Park is a famous ballpark. The Freedom Trail, also a longer drive away, is a walking trail through the city's historic sites.
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- 3,037households
- 77%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 26%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Norfolk County had 348,528 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 51 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hingham weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cohasset
- Cohasset SchoolsSchool district228FTE
- Stop & ShopGrocery stores99
- Hingham Lumber CompanyHome centers, building materials95
- Sunrise Senior Living, LLC.Assisted living71
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 265 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Norfolk County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Norfolk County and the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro.
Cohasset home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cohasset$1,450,934
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Cohasset listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Cohasset24.99%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cohasset29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Cohasset10
Zip codes with a Cohasset address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cohasset — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.